BY HALLIE KEIPER
Before Drake University’s dance team became what it is today – an energetic group of 14 women doing what they love for the benefit of Drake’s athletic department and student sections – the team was competition-based.
Drake senior Courtney Jasper, one of two dance team captains, helped kickstart the change between these two styles in the way the team was organized.
“We were running one dance over and over and over [for our competition],” Jasper said. “It got kind of repetitive and boring so instead, we’re working on dances the school will actually be able to see at basketball games and things like that, whereas when we competed, nobody at Drake really got to see what we were doing, which was a bummer.